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Hi guys,
Here's a challenge I hope you can help me solve. Say I have a table of values with X and Y headers and a 3 x 3 array hoding parameters that are a function of X and Y, call these f (X, Y) as below. Y 0.1 0.2 0.3 1 10 15 20 X 2 15 20 30 3 20 30 40 Say I am given a value of Y = 0.2 and the outcome of the X and Y, f (X, Y) of 20, and the formula needs to return the value of X. From the table above the result I would want to extract is X = 2. The formula needs to look down the second column (Y=0.2) until it finds f (X,Y) = 20. Sounds easy but I'm struggling. I generally use tables where X and Y are known and the value of f(X, Y) is required, but I am finding this trickier. Please assume the values are always exact matches. I may require bilinear interpolation if the numbers are not exact - but I can do that myself. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks Edu |